technologies with the complicity of a number of foreign companies. the one i wrote about today is flaway, which is the world's second biggest telecommaker in china. basically, i came upon documents which showed in late 2010 flaway attempted through a chinese intermediary to sell at least 1.3 million euros worth of hewlett packard equipment to iran's largest mobile phone operator. th this, of course, would be illegal. they say this never happened, but they don't dispute that this offer was made. >> and what about hewlett packard's role? >> hewlett packard, it turns out has an agreement with flawei in which they are allowed to sell its systems and equipment. but what hewlett packard says is they're not allowed to sell it to iran. this is not the first case i've come upon where companies which have partnerships with u.s. companies, somehow that equipment ends up being offered to iran. i wrote earlier this year about zte, another big chinese telecommaker. they were selling equipment from cisco, from hp, from ibm, some other major tech companies. a and, a